Cooking-stove



ERASTUS BUCK, OF NUNDA, NEW YORK.

COOKING-STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent N o. 2,750, dated August 6, 1842.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, ERAs'rUs BUCK, of Nunda,in the county of Allegany and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Cooking-Stoves; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and eXact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specication, in which- Figure l represents the stove with the top plateremoved; Fig. 2 the stove wit-h the front and top plates taken off Fig.3 top plate. i

The nature of my invention consists in placing the furnace or firechamber over the oven nearly at the back part of the stove, and forminga driving Hue on each side ot' the front doors of the fire chamber whichextends down under the oven and up in the rear of the fire chamber andthere connects with the pipe.

The fire chamber A, is formed on the top of the oven with only a fiuespan Gr, between it and the back of the stove; this flue span alsoextends down in rear of the oven at G, under the bot-tom at E, and upthe front side (c) to the top of the oven where it is divided into tw`obranches C which ascend one on each side of the fire doors (c) in front;between these two branches there is a recess their whole thickness atthe back of which the fire doors (a) are placed; this recess forms thehearth of the stove which has an extension outward which is carriedaround the sides forming a hearth at each end of the lire chamber wherethere are also doors opening into it; under these doors, are those whichopen into the oven; the hearth is sunk at the recess similar to most ofthe stoves now in use which is covered by a sliding hearth H; thepartitions betwen the flue span and the ire chamber have openings B, B,C, C, for the smoke to pass through which can be closed by dampers asshown at B which stands vertical and can be moved back and forth in theflue by means of a rod passing through the outer plate in the usual wayof constructing and moving suoli dampers. The top plate of the stove ispierced to receive four boilers each of which is placed contiguous toone of the four apertures B, B, or C, C, those in front being over thefront flues.

Vhen a lire is lighted it' one or both of the dampers B at the back areopened the smoke passes direct-ly through the apertures B to the pipebut when these dampers are` closed and those in front are opened thesmoke is carried forward down in front of the oven under it and up inthe rear to the pipe thus passing around the oven; by this arrangement amore equable heat is diused over the oven and the principal part of theheat of the lire can be directed under any of the boilers at pleasure.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-The combination of a fire chamber placed over the oven at its rear, withthe diving flues (C) projecting in front and passing around the oven inthe manner and for tho purpose herein described.

ERASTUS BUCK Vitnesses:

G. R. LAMBERT, H. S. PAGE.

